Project of creating ready2use serial cables

List of kurobox.com-contest winners that will get a prebuilt serial cable:

russk - done

tampakuro/kuroguy - done

lyakh - done

List of user who want a prebuilt serial cable:

khisanth

MichaelWeiser

mesterS

Juano

BobTheBob

petercr

phuna

mindbender: i still have about 7 cables here...unfortunately my LS Pro`s slide-serial is somewhat not working anymore. so i do not know how to test the cables. i either need another box or i send it in parts.

Here some pictures from the build-process (mindbender had fun with it)

I opened all FutureDial Cables to check if all cables used the same color-coding + Profilic-Chip:

Prebuilt cables will use a heat-shrink-tube to make the cables more stable.

What to check first

Open the dongle in the middle of the cable to check if the profilic chip is used. You need to check the color coding of the wires. Best would be to just leave the dongle open. In my example here we have the color coding for the FutureDial-Cables. If you have a different one check http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddASerialPort for the color coding.

Open the phone connector of the cable

you can slide out all the cables ends out of the connector. Use flat nose pliers.

Prepare the phone sync cable

In this picture: Green is GND, Yellow is RX (as in "data entering the LSPro") and Orange is TX. The not connected terminal is VCC.